Sentences with phrase «of cultural consensus»

So the difficult thing about embracing and properly considering all said factoids, is how to do this without prompting the emotional responses that immediately occur when people's cultural values are either challenged or promoted, which leads to endemic domain polarization and the emergence of cultural consensus based upon the winning narrative.

== -LCB- So the difficult thing about embracing and properly considering all said factoids, is how to do this without prompting the emotional responses that immediately occur when people's cultural values are either challenged or promoted, which leads to endemic domain polarization and the emergence of cultural consensus based upon the winning narrative. -RCB-

It's not like we have achieved any kind of cultural consensus on right and wrong, even in our own societies.

As societies we forge a kind of cultural consensus, but it is entirely possible that within a society there can be a lot of fragmentation and disparate notions.

Not exact matches

The tone of the speech strongly suggests that the sun is setting on the powerful cultural - political consensus that has dominated the West since 1945.

The speakers had a variety of views, but the consensus on the panel was that an alliance is indeed forming on social and cultural issues, specifically gender and sexuality, and that this alliance will have a serious influence on domestic and global politics.

Because of the cultural changes of modernity, however, the just war tradition has been carried, developed, and applied not as a single cultural consensus but as distinct streams in Catholic canon law and theology, Protestant religious thought, secular philosophy, international law, military theory and practice, and the experience of statecraft.

For this reason they have retrenched into what Berkouwer calls «a biblicist misinterpretation of the church's dealings with Scripture and its confession 6 Interpretations have seemed to lead in questionable directions — directions which either have moved away from traditional Biblical consensus or have disputed current cultural analysis.

The task ahead of us is to help disentangle from ideology the issues that make up the themes of this consensus - inter alia, man's relationship to creation, the role of woman in society, people's participation in governance, a global ethic, North - South solidarity, the role of business, cultural identity, holism.

Consensus, accords and other soft agreements (such as the 1994 Cairo consensus or the recent Copenhagen Accord), while not being «legally binding», do substantially determine the direction of global governance, establish a «global normative framework», are often «enforced» - effectively implemented, as if political and cultural agreements had become more «binding» than hard law.

Another cultural reason for the prevalence of anxiety and insecurity is that the contemporary individual is no longer sustained by what Jung called the power of the «consensus Omnium.»

Then more flexible people begin to understand, and they start to experiment with the new consensus so that cultural transformation, this movement from death to life of an entire people, begins to happen.

In an interview with Il Foglio Cardinal Scola, Patriarch of Venice and founder of the Oasis cultural centre for understanding between Catholics and Muslims, said that the Open Letter to the Pope and other Christian leaders by 138 scholars from various Islamic traditions was «not only a media event, because consensus is for Islam a source of theology and law... The fact that the text is rooted in Muslim tradition is very important and makes it more credible than other proclamations expressed in more western language... It is only a prelude to a theological dialogue... in an atmosphere of greater reciprocal esteem.

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That is, will the faith - communities while keeping their separate identities be prepared in the present historical situation of pluralism, to interact with each other bringing their respective religious and / or ideological insights on the conception of the human so as to build something of a consensus of cultural and moral values on which to build a single larger secular community?

Now, as Childs points out, most of the elements in this consensus have been questioned from within and have been made to appear irrelevant by the social and cultural upheavals of the 1960s.

«We urgently appeal to those in positions of social and economic, as well as political and cultural, responsibility to hear the cry of the Earth and to attend to the needs of the marginalised, but above all to respond to the plea of millions and support the consensus of the world for the healing of our wounded creation,» they wrote.

To be quite specific, we are taking it from a consensus that is rooted in the European Enlightenment and that, to a remarkable extent, has become universal, at least among the cultural elites of the world.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

This seemingly simple service of association and presence is a critical social need in the context of extraordinary experiences and rites of passage that depend a shared cultural consensus for their significance.

Of course, both the BBC and Oxford University are part of the British establishment, and for cultural reasons will tend to reflect the establishment consensus; but that is a different matter from being agencies under the control of the government of the daOf course, both the BBC and Oxford University are part of the British establishment, and for cultural reasons will tend to reflect the establishment consensus; but that is a different matter from being agencies under the control of the government of the daof the British establishment, and for cultural reasons will tend to reflect the establishment consensus; but that is a different matter from being agencies under the control of the government of the daof the government of the daof the day.

In a dreadfully volatile way, the current brinkmanship is a symptom of this re-evaluation - and a fundamental cultural consensus that the electorate has to reach.

The pop - cultural consensus on horror director Tobe Hooper would seem to be that, with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, he somehow made one of the genre's defining masterpieces right out of the gate only to squander a promising career on a string of strange mediocrities that ultimately marked him more as a hack - for - hire than an auteur in the tradition of more respected contemporaries such as John Carpenter, Wes Craven, or George A. Romero.

As ever, the actual, individual tastes of critics and audience members vary, and there's a danger in trying to assign a cultural consensus to every movie.

«TIGA strongly welcomes the growing political consensus in favour of GTR and the recognition by the UK Coalition Government of the economic and cultural importance of the video games industry.

Other works from Molly Zuckerman - Hartung and Amy Feldman represent the continuing cultural relevance of the Riot Grrrl ideologies, and a consensus of discontent with the contemporary art landscape.

The CIA scandal confirmed that the CCF had been enlisted in shoring up an anti-Communist consensus in the service of U.S. hegemony during the cultural Cold War.

A few points that have caught my interest so far: • dealing with complex problems using complex tools, ideas • the idea of reconciliation in scientific debates is to try different approaches in an experimental meeting for attempting nonviolent communication in impassioned debates where there is disagreement • reconciliation is not about consensus, but rather creating an arena where we can have honest disagreement • violence in this debate derives from the potential impacts of climate change and the policy options, and differing political and cultural notions of risk and responsibility.

Without any modern reference or climate science knowledge, history speaks very well to the great convenience of powerful cultural consensus, whether spawned by science, religion, or indeed past climate fears.

There is only one way to explain their posture and that is the cultural rot politics that they in fact share with most of the vocal «consensus» and the larger climate science community.

The central goal of this study was to see what «belief in scientific consensus» measures — to see how it relates to both knowledge of climate science and cultural identity.

The first was the existence of a strong correlation between individuals» cultural values and their perceptions of scientific consensus on risks known to divide persons of opposing worldviews.

Indeed religions do have plenty of associated social data, which does point to cultural consensus.

In particular, What if macroscopic evolution is not just another «a cultural consensus» imposed by like minded atheists / materialists who by definition preclude open science of testing it against the null hypothesis of known stochastic and chemical processes (as distinct from mutations causing microevolution)?

Just as in the case for individual deception, there are various domain independent clues available for instinct to exploit in detecting the typical deceptions of a whole group (advocating a cultural consensus).

David L Hagan: What if macroscopic evolution is not just another «a cultural consensus» imposed by like minded atheists / materialists who by definition preclude open science of testing it against the null hypothesis of known stochastic and chemical processes (as distinct from mutations causing microevolution)?

Despite underlying social truths, a cultural consensus is in itself a collective deception22a, b that provides major advantages including: a coalition system for combating individual dominance, an underwriting of altruism within group, and mechanisms to achieve common action in the face of the unknown.

They are relevant to out - of - domain social analysis (also a scientific inquiry yet topic independent), though only to the extent of establishing ownership or not by a cultural consensus, a procedure neither Shermer or the 3P tests address.

Ultimately a product of group selection21 and gene - culture co-evolution21a, the social groups caught up in the deception versus detection arms race are cultural, i.e. they feature an emergent socially enforced consensus, a cultural consensus21b.

So this may sometimes lead to 4), the worst case of which is a cultural consensus hi - jacking science, hence posing as a scientific consensus33.

They all challenge directly or indirectly the certainty of calamity, because true to it's name the climate change consensus is detectable as cultural, i.e. it is a socially enforced consensus, with the certainty of calamity as it's core narrative.

Better than typical prior stuff that was too buried in the «nitty gritty», and probing nearer to the heart of the issue, i.e. that the certainty of calamity is a cultural consensus not a scientifically supported fact.

Empirical studies aimed at trying to make sense of this phenomenon have concluded that the reason the public remains divided on «scientific consensus» isn't that they haven't been exposed to evidence on the matter but rather that when they are exposed to evidence of what experts believe they selectively credit or discredit it in patterns that reflect and reinforce their perception that scientific consensus is consistent with the position that predominates in their cultural or ideological group.

For people on the political right (e.g., more politically conservative), perception of scientific consensus decreases, just as cultural cognition predicts.

The study presents both correlational and experimental evidence confirming that cultural cognition shapes individuals» beliefs about the existence of scientific consensus, and the process by which they form such beliefs, relating to climate change, the disposal of nuclear wastes, and the effect of permitting concealed possession of handguns.

«It is a mistake to think «scientific consensus,» of its own force, will dispel cultural polarization on issues that admit scientific investigation,» said Kahan.

Is it even possible to have a global consensus on an internet bill of rights, given our diverse cultural sensitivities?

Policy makers need to be mindful and accommodating of the considerable pressures borne by Indigenous leaders who have to juggle Indigenous and non Indigenous political and professional demands; and immediate and extended family and cultural demands and achieve consensus outcomes across all areas of their work and life.